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Winter-Summer Instructors

Until just a few years ago, Summer and Winter Instructors were not represented by a union, even though the vast majority of these instructors have been and are currently represented by the AAUP-AFT as full-time faculty, teaching/graduate assistants and part-time lecturers in the Fall and Spring semesters.

Dissatisfaction with salaries, arbitrary policies and procedures and a lack of recourse to address issues related to appointments, led a majority of instructors to sign cards in support of union representation in 2008. A contract was finalized in 2011. The contract between Rutgers University and the Winter-Summer Instructors, which runs through October 31, 2016, can be read here.

In response to threats to Dr. Puar, the Executive Council reaffirms that academic freedom protects all scholarly research and communication, including criticism of the actions and morality of any government or non-state actor. The Union offers advice, training, and legal protection to any faculty member facing similar attacks from within or outside Rutgers University.

Join the national day of action at rallies planned to start at 3pm on Wed, November 16--info on rallies scheduled for Voorhees Mall (College Ave Campus-New Brunswick) and Paul Robeson Campus Center (Rutgers-Newark)!

Rutgers agrees to provide protections in step with the demand for sanctuary campus

Part-Time Lecturers Speak-Out for Dignity & Equity at Rutgers

As part-time lecturers, we teach many of the courses at Rutgers - why doesn't the university treat us with the dignity and respect that we deserve? The corporatization of higher education hurts all of us.